UPDATE: Charles Saatchi has admitted assaulting his wife Nigella Lawson.
The Mirror reports that Saatchi accepted a caution for assault after he was questioned by police officers for five hours at Charing Cross Police Station, London.
A police spokesman said: “Officers from the Community Safety Unit at Westminster were aware of the Sunday People article which was published on 16 June and carried out an investigation.
“This afternoon a 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a Central London police station and accepted a caution for assault.”
Saatchi had earlier tried to dismiss the incident, saying he had not hurt Lawson and that his throat-grabbing was simply a “tiff”.
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Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson’s husband has said images of him with his hands round his wife’s throat misrepresented a “playful tiff”.
British police say they are investigating after a newspaper published photos of Nigella Lawson’s husband Charles Saatchi with his hands around the celebrity chef’s throat.
The Sunday People newspaper ran pictures of what it said was the couple’s violent argument at a London restaurant on June 9.
Saatchi, Britain’s best-known art collector, told London Evening Standard newspaper on Monday that the pictures misrepresented a “playful tiff”.
”About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella’s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point.
”There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.
”We had made up by the time we were home. The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled.”
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Lawson’s spokesman, Mark Hutchinson, declined to comment.
